Boris Yuryevich

Holy Boris Yuryevich was prince of Belgorod, Turov and Kideksha, a son of Yuri Dolgoruky, and passed away in 1159. He is honoured as a right-⁠believing prince.

His life was full of campaigns and struggles. Together with his brothers, among them Saint Andrei Bogolyubsky, he helped their father win the throne of Kyiv. When Yuri took Kyiv in 1149, he set Boris as prince in Belgorod (1149-1151); in 1154-1157 he was prince of Turov. In 1157, at his father's death, Boris left for the north and received Kideksha, as the only relative of Andrei Bogolyubsky to hold a domain in the north. His wife's name was Maria.

The chronicles say he died in May of 1158 or 1159, at Suzdal, and was buried in the church of Saints Boris and Gleb at Kideksha, built by his father, where his wife and daughter also rest.

In 1675 the Suzdal voivode Timothy Savelov examined the stone shrine and testified to the incorruption of the relics; local veneration began from that time. The prince was canonized in 1982, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir, and in 2002 the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Belarus included him in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Land of Belarus.